Operatic
Heroines Rosina. French playwright
Beaumarchais created an unusual heroine in the character of Rosina, who appears in his trilogy of plays The Barber of Seville, The Marriage of Figaro and The Guilty Mother.
Rosina uses all her cunning to outwit several men in the course of the action. In The Barber of Seville, she is pursued by Count Almaviva and her guardian Dr Bartolo; in The
Marriage of Figaro, she is married to the Count and pursued by Cherubino; and in the final Beaumarchais play, she introduces her illegitimate child. The programme features excerpts from The Barber of Seville by Rossini and Paisiello, and from The Marriage of Figaro by Mozart.